Psychological responses to emergencies follow a pattern…only 10 to 15 percent of any group involved in any emergency will react appropriately. Another 10 to 15 percent will behave totally inappropriately and the remaining 70 to 80 percent will need to be told what to do. The most common reactions at the onset of an emergency are disbelief and denial.

What you’ve got to work with is what you have! When possible, always carry your ten essentials. But this collection of survival items, integrated into your wardrobe, may get you through an emergency!

By Rosalind Boyer-Cole • For the Wausau Daily Herald • January 12, 2010 Jack Frost is traveling through Wisconsin! As January and February arrive, this may mean colder temperatures, more snowstorms, and ice. Winter weather can catch people unprepared. Research indicates that 70 percent of fatalities related to snow and ice occur in automobiles and [...]

Now, the popular belief that people in unfamiliar surroundings tend to walk round in circles has been confirmed by scientists. Good info here from the “Times Online.”

If nobody knows you’ve gone, or where to look, or when you might be back, it could be a long wait to be rescued! An detailed note about your proposed outing should be standard operating procedure.

Leon Pantenburg is a wilderness enthusiast, and doesn’t claim to be a survival expert or expertise as a survivalist. As a newpaperman for three decades, covering search and rescue, sheriff’s departments and outdoor emergencies, Leon learned many people died unnecessarily or escaped miraculously from outdoor emergency situations when simple, common sense may have changed the outcome. Leon now teaches common sense survival techniques to the average person in order to avert potential disasters.

An emergency can happen to you and your family at any time, on any day, and most people are completely unprepared. What would you do if you sprained your ankle at dusk, in the middle of a forested urban park on a routine evening winter run? What if your car slides off a rural, icy road and gets stuck in a ditch during a fierce mid-Western blizzard? What about being awakened by fire alarms and the smell of smoke in your totally-dark, fourth-floor hotel room?

Most people never think about the need to survive anything. But you, the average person, could easily be one slip, fall or crash away from real trouble.

This website is about proven and tested common sense survival techniques that anyone should learn when living in urban areas or wandering about in the wilderness. Using your common sense to survive any calamity can change a dangerous situation into a mere inconvenience.
Contact Leon at: survivalsenselp@gmail.com